Thesaurus results for FOAMED

foamed

verb

past tense of foam

as in steamed

to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger the old man foamed and raged when they told him he would have to give up the farm

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Recent Examples of foamed The Timberwolves foamed at the mouth, eager to back up Jaden McDaniels’ trash talk about Denver’s defense from three days earlier. — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 24 Apr. 2026 With her eyes closed and her palms turned upward, Scherzinger appeared to be in total peace as the ocean tide gently foamed around her feet. — Danielle Minnetian, FOXNews.com, 22 Apr. 2026

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Zucchini With its high water content, zucchini can turn mushy and even fall apart when steamed.

— Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2026
Their crabs are steamed, frozen and packed into boxes to be shipped to Sri Lanka, where workers remove the meat by hand.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026

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The confrontation began Friday after a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a mosque, and gunmen stormed the facility, killing 21 people and wounding 103 others.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 20 Sep. 2026
Thousands of revelers — the women dressed in Bavarian dirndls, the men in lederhosen — stormed the beer tents on Munich's Theresienwiese fairground in the morning to get a good spot on the benches.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 Sep. 2026

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By and large, though, the institution maintained bipartisan support as the guardian of America’s history, ingenuity and natural heritage, even as political polarization spread and culture wars raged.

— Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 24 Sep. 2026
Hours later, the world began shutting down as the COVID-19 pandemic raged.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of raged

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Fuel is then injected and burned while the airflow remains supersonic inside the combustion chamber.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 20 Sep. 2026
In effect, thousands of tons of materials that were never intended to be inhaled were crushed, burned, aerosolized and deposited across a densely populated urban area.

— Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2026

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